How To Use Contemporary In A Sentence

There are some trademark pieces - elegant-legged tables and high-quality marquetry - mixed in with contemporary designer furniture, antique shop finds and some very in-your-face art.
Zunun Kadir, the famous writer, playwright and fabulist, was the founder and the pioneer of the contemporary Uighur literature.
Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
Despite the fact that the soloists just use these two chords, the improvisations are melodically and rhythmically rich - a signpost of contemporary mainstream jazz.
Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.

It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light, jazz-style accompaniment is required.
Madame Grès, born Germaine Krebs, was once as well-known as her contemporary Coco Chanel, but while Ms. Chanel sold mass-produced ready-to-wear, Ms. Grès designed only hand-made haute couture that sold first as the label "Alix" and later as "Madame Grès. Collecting Vintage Dresses Like Art
The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
A further explanation may lie in the principles and style of legal interpretation and administration that are operative in Indonesia's contemporary legal system.
In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
He was always keen to promote works by contemporary composers and also favoured neglected works. Times, Sunday Times
Katy chose to focus on design, as in functional contemporary design rather than fine art and sculpture.
In contemporary philosophical language these would be the doctrines of hylozoism and animism.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939- ) is a prestigious contemporary Canadian woman writer, poet, and critic with international reputation and she is famous for her prolificacy and experimental techniques.
This is very much in line with the contemporary need to have everything explained in cerebral, rather than emotional terms.
The dissertation is on Chinese contemporary literature research from the view of comparative literature study.
The actors themselves are firmly located in contemporary Rome: the vivid specificity of the social milieux is sometimes more reminiscent of satire than of earlier elegy.
The bust of Thales shown above is in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, but is not contemporary with Thales and is unlikely to bear any resemblance to him
The Treasury offers antiques, collectibles and a small inventory of contemporary items.
A parallel argument is put by contemporary feminist writers when they discuss Freud's ideas regarding relationships between parents and children.
He wrote in a highly individual, sometimes obscure, way that was in sharp contrast to the compressed intellectual style of T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and other contemporary poets.
Here the mufti, or jurisconsult, appears to play a role remarkably similar to that of the roman jurist or contemporary European law professor (in providing Gutachten or opinions to courts).
Doctoral dissertation: " Secularisation and Christianity in Contemporary Britain".
This anthology pairs contemporary stories with folk tales, many of which interpret natural phenomena in the light of local knowledge and lore.
Contemporary drawings show that the cookhouse was badly cracked as was the barracks and one of the caponiers had completely detached itself.
Such a gesture might look to contemporary historians like an act of archival vandalism, but it was entirely characteristic of the old school to which Macmillan belonged.
O'Connell sells contemporary glass sculpture, a popular medium for homes full of sun on the water.
This book is the most balanced account of the phenomenon of contemporary jihadism to date.
The ingredients for an ecological house are visible in an ordinary contemporary house.
I found myself a few minutes ago, by mistake, on a lolcats website. The lolcat is the essential representation of the malaise of contemporary life: people with too much time on their hands and no idea how to use it.
He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.
Perhaps there was truth in Croce's epigram that `all history is contemporary history". SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Even early American democracy would get low marks by contemporary standards since there was no enfranchisement for the majority of the population.
Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece. News | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
The sheer size of both works easily reveals each grain of color within the picture plane so that they appear as contemporary reflections of the pointillist style of Georges Seurat.
What we saw on Sunday made a perfect vignette of contemporary middle-distance racing. Times, Sunday Times
I do not need to detain the House with a contemporary history of that sad state.
Contemporary sculptors often blend traditional styles with more modern ones.
Kathryn led her own contemporary dance company for eighteen years and now choreographs for ballet companies nationally and internationally.
So it is tempting to dismiss his dim view of contemporary pop as the all-too-typical plaint of an aging fan. When the Music Stopped
Contemporary Western feminist theory in the 1980s moved beyond the dialogues that sought to differentiate feminisms from each other and instead began to articulate a more pluralized notion of feminism at its core.
To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
Cranmer does not intend to delve into the divisive arguments which confronted the Early Church on the nature of Christ's divinity and his humanity, but to focus on the controversy which has been caused by a statue of Jesus with an erect penis, which is on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Cranmer
Prices were up for all of the auction house's major art categories, including £ 766.6 million in Impressionist and modern art, up 53% from 2009; ₤ £ 602.6 million in post-war and contemporary art, up 148%; ₤ £ 569.6 million in Asian art, up 145%; and ₤ £ 334.2 million in jewelry, jadeite and watches, up 55%. Jump in Art Sales at Christie's Points to Market Rebound
The Duke's foray into the world of contemporary art yielded equally predictable results. Times, Sunday Times
According to contemporary investigation, the processes of succussion or trituration disturb the atomic state of a drug substance by jolting electron (negative charge) out of its orbit.
They teach students to make sense of history as contemporary secular historians make sense of it.
Some alluded to specifically contemporary issues.
Yet the idea of a post-apocalyptic city captivates the contemporary mind and its images continue to proliferate.
The painting raises another question: how can native Hawaiians preserve ancient traditions within the calabash of ideas and cultures that is contemporary Hawaii?
But the Church wants to challenge that finding by meeting and debating with leading thinkers on faith and contemporary living.
You name your favorite contemporary artist and odds are they are involved.
Cyril Connolly had been a contemporary at Eton, and painted the most celebrated pen-portrait of the Prime Minister-to-be in 1938.
I am aware that the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Mass. gave a number of contemporary music concerts this year and they were very warmly received. Skin and Bone
In the important second chapter dealing with the Council of Trent and the popes contemporary with it, the stress is laid again on the importance of binding tradition.
No, what is required is something contemporary, a song that at least emerged from the confusion of modern, urban Scotland, that sings of the streets rather than the rivers and sheepfolds.
Spring/summer and autumn/winter seasons are now about as relevant to contemporary life as Gregorian plainsong. Why fast fashion is slow death for the planet
Schreker's opera not as a work from a turn of the century long ago, but as a paradigm with very contemporary relevance.
Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery? John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
Tate Modern, SE1, Thu to 5 JunSkye SherwinS1 Artspace continues to establish itself on the contemporary art-world map with this unashamedly spaced-out show of Jennifer West film installations. This week's new exhibitions
Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.
You can also overcome one of the worst problems in contemporary life, that of cold coffee.
The obscurities of literary theory are mercifully avoided, frequently by such witty contemporary reference and colloquial language which bring Shakespeare into the world of today's reader.
As Hewitt has suggested, feminist utopianism, like symbolic interactionism, seeks to create new conceptual spaces in which radically different ways of being can be imagined and in which different distributions of power, including sexual power, can be conceived (Contemporary 17-21). Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
At the top, a contemporary version of a belvedere frames a final breathtaking vista before visitors immerse themselves in the dense fabric and delights of the historic centre.
In this he differs from his great contemporary, Tennessee Williams, for whom the interior world of his characters is more real than their social environ.
His protagonists are too full of life and way too complicated to be the mere vehicles for ruminating on the contemporary dilemmas they face.
Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form.
Contemporary American adolescents have become much more work oriented generally then those of a generation or so ago, mostly because they have been exposed to the costly allurements of a consumption-obsessed America.
His seminal works are more than three decades old and yet his books retain a strange, contemporary vitality.
Roughly contemporary with the pier table, it was also made in New York City, although by whom has not been determined.
His many references to the Kingdom recorded in the Gospels must be seen against this historical background and contemporary context.
A 1960s ranch calls for a contemporary garden with a sculptural plant, such as a Japanese maple or contorted filbert.
He rubbished most of the novels written by contemporary writers.
Instead I argued that such ultimate questions are not answerable, at least by anyone in our contemporary conversation.
If the less perfect ophidians, or snakes, which now abound on the earth had taken the lead in those ancient days among the land reptiles, and the Deinosaurians had been contemporary with Man, there can be no doubt that the progressionist would have seized upon this fact with unfeigned satisfaction as confirmatory of his views. The Antiquity of Man
To unwind, she delves into contemporary quilting - tying past to present, weaving emotions and demands into creations that present a physical reminder of a very rich, yet often troubling, cultural history.
Contemporary accounts attest to his courage and determination.
The grandeur is tempered by contemporary touches: sofas are vibrant velvet and walls are decked with modern artworks. Times, Sunday Times
In the last few years London has seen a variety of operatic styles in contemporary opera.
He was in the mainstream of British contemporary music.
They serve as an important contemporary counterpoint to the cases below that are devoted to Africa's long history of agriculture, metallurgy, and ceramic production.
Owenson's status as a professional woman writer was constantly abused by contemporary male reviewers, who savagely attacked everything she wrote.
Their work has produced, however, extraordinary discoveries, including a marble odeum, or small theater, of Roman Imperial date and a contemporary bath complex, both of which have no parallels at any other site in Egypt. The Elusive Tomb of Alexander
Contemporary dance artists Forecast will be performing their new show Ready at Lancaster University's Nuffield Theatre on Tuesday.
You could draw a line of descent from that cheeky 17th-century image straight to the saucy postcards of contemporary Blackpool. Times, Sunday Times
I shall take four different examples from contemporary literature to illustrate my point.
Not far from downtown Austin, urban infill translates as contemporary homes that are all sharp ... WN.com - Articles related to Typhoon Melor waves crash on Japan before landfall near Kyoto and Tokyo
It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society, and of culture itself.
No consensus has been achieved among scholars on the questions concerning the fundamental reorientation and periodization of China's contemporary diplomacy.
Contemporary law classified married and under-aged women as non-persons, their identities being subsumed under that of their husband or father.
Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
Bittersweet is this journey to the wooden boatyards of Maine and the glorious work of ‘contemporary genius’ Joel White as he undertook what he knew would be his last wooden boat project.
He's bringing contemporary works to Los Angeles, including Christopher Wheeldon's 2006 "DGV," originally created for the Royal Ballet; a new piece, "Epimetheus," by Russell Ducker, from Britain, a company member; and "Solea," a pas de deux for Mr. Corella and his sister created by the flamenco dancer María Pagés, and. Debra Levine: Ballet's Angel Corella Looks Ahead ... and Back
In the United States a most dramatic contemporary example of this process is the abortion issue.
He had a particular interest in works by contemporary artists and was a pioneer in the development of artist-in-residence programs.
It radiates a Goth passion, a combination of lust and cruelness: the metal rounded quarter of an egg shaped, lead-hued metal in contrast to the blood-red transparent glass within which beats the cold-heart of a contemporary vixen. Archive 2009-02-01
We call it Tudor revival with a twist because it recalls traditional homes in early Seattle neighborhoods, but is contemporary in the way it opens to a multifunctional garden landscape.
Contemporary Prairie du Chien sites without wild rice indicate the spatially restricted nature of rice exploitation.
Historical novels can introduce children to how people lived in other ages, even if told with contemporary sensibilities in mind.
“He’s behaved like a perfect peeg!” she said gruffly, pronouncing the word cochon as though she referred to Joan of Arc’s contemporary, Bishop Cauchon. Within a Budding Grove
The values of privacy and the values of home are closely interwoven, especially in contemporary middle-class culture.
There's a shabby chic feel, alongside some contemporary touches. Times, Sunday Times
A simple still life, then, but one that was clearly intended to exemplify the contemporary crisis in agriculture.
Given that the Picts practiced a form of matrilineal succession according to contemporary writers such as Bede see article on Pictish matriliny, it seems surprising that so few royal female names were recorded. Pictish female names
We veer between a rivetingly fresh reinvention of a myth and some clunkier contemporary confrontation and despair. Times, Sunday Times
Give people exactly what they remember a genre is all about, add a smidgeon of irony/contemporary cultural reference to taste, count the money.
What follows are seven creepy experiments—thought experiments, really—that show how contemporary science might advance if it were to toss away the moral compass that guides it.
There are no contemporary estimates of how rapidly and how far literacy spread; nor is it possible for us to quantify it with the data provided by largely innumerate contemporaries.
Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
That show, curated by Okwui Enwezor, adjunct curator of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago, addresses art and politics in Africa from 1945 to 1994.
An important visual signal of the contemporary printing media is the so-called "cover girl".
Contemporary works in a variety of media from the past 50 years, which look at the ways in which art has explored perception and awareness. Times, Sunday Times
Top tip when choosing luxury bathroom decor is to keep the look broadly contemporary. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, many contemporary Episcopal congregations clamor for more and more in-depth adult - education offerings.
The praiseworthy goal of the contemporary Italian order of antipasto, primo, secondo, contorno accompanying vegetables, and dolce is to separate tastes and arrange them so as to create a familiar and pleasurable sense of progress from the beginning to the end of the meal. Delizia!
Not to be missed are the ensemble of classic and contemporary masterpieces put up by stores.
While the old traditions still excite, craftspersons should be taught to cater to the contemporary market without which they will fade into oblivion.
As one might imagine, staging a contemporary, through-composed work is not for the faint-hearted. Cedric Perrier: I Dream : Lowery & Young Join King Family at World Premiere of New MLK opera
It was not undertaken to support, refute or criticize contemporary urban and regional theory.
He was admitted to a lay ministry program sponsored by the Milwaukee Archdiocese, a program that introduced him to contemporary theology and the history of Catholic social action.
As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.
So, every time the curtain lifts, there is something new - a contemporary issue presented with all the witticism of the world.
For the most part, however, he made the best of contemporary information.
Anesthetics have evolved as well, and through contemporary versions of ancient techniques such as electroacupuncture and guided-imagery hypnosis, pain is being lessened. The G.O.D. Experiments
Thus contemporary virtue ethics needs a notion of moral character apt for the twenty-first century. The Times Literary Supplement
For your efforts you will also get a bonus of 23 modern lithographic prints by contemporary artists.
It is quite an architectural tree and we are going for a contemporary look. Times, Sunday Times
What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy metaphor for contemporary America.
These pieces of pop antiquity might sound like cartoon music to contemporary ears.
Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcoming Armageddon but many also describe a dire contemporary situation.
Annual showcase season of contemporary dance from home and abroad. Times, Sunday Times
Their exhibition features traditional and contemporary Pacific art and carvings.
We are thrilled that this first test of the market with Turkish Contemporary Art as a separate category on the international auction scene was so well received and attracted such enthusiastic bidding.
The cadence, phrasing, and rhythm of the language is very similar to that found in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in heroic contemporary Anglo-Saxon poetry.
They have a pleasant mix of antiques, retro furniture and contemporary art. Times, Sunday Times
She is not interested in neophilia, the insatiable hunger for the new that is one of the terrible afflictions of contemporary society. Victoria Miro, queen of arts
Both nonspecialists and specialists in Tillich's theology will find here ideas suggestive for contemporary teaching and preaching.
Each year we build a new addition to the charnel house of contemporary life. John Feffer: Pinker: Pollyanna of Peace?
Zwilich's flute concerto was nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
The author builds up a useful composite picture of contemporary consumer culture.
Epics and their contemporary shadows, action-adventure tales, are very much phallocentric genres in which women, when they appear at all, are relegated to the roles of damsels in distress, mother-figures, sex objects, or witches, either good or bad. Lieutenants, sergeants, squires, free-lances, and the hero-king
Suicide is not often used in contemporary fiction and is very much taboo. Times, Sunday Times
In a world of changing lifestyles brought about by new services, technology and e-commerce, this book enters the arena of contemporary research with particular topicality.
In the States, his choreography copped a Bessie award - given for contemporary dance and dance theater.
Contemporary Marxist urban sociology places much less emphasis on the supposed necessity for the state to be engaged in collective consumption.
He made a name for himself by buying paintings by contemporary British artists and was the first dealer to place French and British Impressionist paintings in public institutions.
Perhaps discomforted by these challenges, contemporary critics disparaged the painting.
The album's tracks are a contemporary interpretation of Bulgarian folklore and Orthodox music.
But in the last 20 years or so, each has developed into one of the most uniquely charismatic showmen in contemporary music. Comebacks and Co-Conspirators
It's interesting to see how many references or allusions to these festivals remain in contemporary Britain.
In recent years, there is a number of contemporary architecture in the new forms of"innovative"design. In these designs, the"innovative"forms are often base on the change of functional organization.
A favourite sideman of Charles Mingus in the early 1960s, Ervin went on to form one of contemporary jazz's great quartets and recorded a series of seminal albums including The Freedom Book and The Space Book.
The assessment and management of risk, in this case that of self-harm, is a prominent part of contemporary psychiatric practice.
Reed's generous patronage of contemporary American artists was exceptional in the early nineteenth century.
This angle valve with bib cock is part of a great new line of fittings for contemporary bathrooms.
Zang Kejia left a rich legacy to contemporary Chinese Parnassus after he passed away. His new poetry creation still has profound influence on modern poets.
Feeding on the growth of after work drinking and nibbling, chicken appetizers are gaining strength based on contemporary Mexican and Asian recipes.
As ever, I wanted some tunes to take away, apart from bits of airs (with a minuet as a slight leitmotiv) of contemporary style.
His prices rank high among those of other contemporary photographers.
Eitel makes an important contribution to contemporary missiology, and challenges Southern Baptist missionaries to study mission methods and philosophy more thoroughly.
Bray's _History of Surrey_ (vol.i. p. 314.) without any notice of its contents, is preserved in the upper chamber of a building on the north side of the chancel, erected in 1513, and designated as a "vestibulum" in a contemporary inscription. Notes and Queries, Number 01, November 3, 1849
This is a brilliant work, a sensational contemporary art object that seems so easy yet is so conceptually sophisticated.
The new story is set in a contemporary urban setting with Red as a sexy adult nightclub entertainer, the Wolf a debonair skirt chaser, and Grandma an oversexed man-chaser.
Their marriage is a delicate balance between traditional and contemporary values.
The 16th century house has been renovated and furnished in contemporary style.
Most of the controversial and contemporary socio-political issues have found a mention in the programme.
These are radical changes which will alter the complexion of the British contemporary dance scene.
With such diverse output as her world music album Where Rivers Meet an evocation of her Bengali connections, with clarinettist brother Idris and the thrilling jazz virtuosity of her trio's recent live recording, pianist Zoe Rahman covers plenty of contemporary bases. This week's new live music
So, instead of offering thoughtful lyrics that address contemporary concerns both political and social, or easing the audience into a new sound with trademark humor, he keeps the beats simple and the raps simpler.
French philosopher Joseph de Maistre (an antirevolution contemporary of Edmund Burke) complained that the Enlightenment types had stripped government of the mystery needed to awe the governed. A Blog Too Far: How the Maestro Made Them Mad
Some instinctive appreciation of this fact may have given rise to the mystique which surrounded ￡40 a year in contemporary culture.
The contemporary innovation of learning, as an undividable aspect of social progression, has been the motive force of the development of society.
This is not to deny, of course, that crime and violence in contemporary society is an important social reality.
A contemporary Portuguese geographer recorded that Diaz realized ‘that the coast here turned northwards and north-eastwards towards Ethiopia under Egypt and on to the Gulf of Arabia, giving great hope of the discovery of India’.
And of course, it is impossible to speak of Gillian Welch or Revival without mentioning "Annabelle," perhaps the single finest example of contemporary musical naturalism:We lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule Archive 2006-10-01
Never mind contemporary country music, with its upbeat insipidity, which is to the genre at its best as a giant shopping complex is to the wild terrain eradicated to build it.
Wild applause erupted when Zeng Fanzhi's painting of youths wearing absurd masks and Red Guard scarves went for $9.7 million, a new auction high for any Asian contemporary artwork.
As a representational act, landscape architecture has a responsibility to further the discourse on contemporary notions of nature and urbanity.
It was in these genre figures that he synthesized the classical and the contemporary in a way that now looks original.
The 16th century house has been renovated and furnished in contemporary style.
Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.
belaboured" Froude, with all the violence of which he was capable, in The Contemporary Review. The Life of Froude
This lag in attention has yet to be fully addressed by contemporary West Coast museums and curators.
Use indirect lighting to add ambience and to enhance the sleek design of your contemporary furniture.
Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.
It's the tale of two contemporary literary academics sleuthing their way into a long lost love affair, and is utterly laden with coincidence.
Western Marxists deem that the contemporary capitalism is a national capitalism which is different from non-monopoly capitalism and it enters a new capitalist era.
Most of you must know that Udayakumar, a contemporary of Rajkumar, was famous for his highly melodramatic performances.
In this hilarious parody of the contemporary nightclub scene, four bouncers portray over 30 different characters.
In the United States a most dramatic contemporary example of this process is the abortion issue.
Respected magazines all over Europe have used on their cover pages menacing images of fiery dragons spewing banknotes or contemporary Maos with imperialistic designs on the continent.
The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny.
The torture of the boot was considered by contemporary observers to be the ‘most severe and cruel pain in the world’.
This analysis not only reveals how multiple oppressions constitute the contemporary system, but also suggests new openings for change.
The truth is, that our friend had been reading among the essays of a contemporary, who has perversely been confounded with him, a paper in which Edax (or the Great Eater) humorously complaineth of an inordinate appetite; and it struck him that a better paper -- of deeper interest, and wider usefulness -- might be made out of the imagined experiences of a The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
The exhibition will include new works on paper through print and wood block, abstract sculptural wall pieces to functional ceramics, glasswork, iron works and clean contemporary textile works.
CINDERELLA EATS RICE AND BEANS is a contemporary, Latin-American Cinderella musical that delightfully turns the classic fairy tale on its head, telling the story from both Cinderella and her stepsisters 'perspectives. BroadwayWorld.com Atlanta Stories
To tie together a book that covers the colonial-era tavern, the frontier barrelhouse, the high-toned New York City saloon, the German beer-garden, the speakeasy, the cocktail lounge, the gay bar and even the contemporary neo-speakeasy, a writer needs a grand theme. The All-American Place
From this vantage point, contemporary sport no longer seems a distinctively modern phenomenon. Times, Sunday Times

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